basis for a verbindungsnetzwerk a node for fast packet switching.

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP90/02010 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 29, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 29, 1992 PCT Filed Nov. 27, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/08633 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 13, 1991.A basic element for the interconnection network of a fast packet switching node, where a synchronization is made at bit input stream level, the cell beginning is identified and a stream conversion from the serial form to a word parallel form is performed. Cells are thus transformed in a completely parallel form and in the same form they are cyclically discharged in the subsequent cell time in a memory, where cells are written and read in a shared way on the basis of instructions given by a control unit, thus performing the switching function. The control unit is essentially based on the use of a content-addressed associative memory, where a fraction of the routing header and a code indicating the time sequence on which the cells are stored. Memory outgoing cells are reconverted from a completely parallel form to a form having the length of one word and therefore in a completely serial form at a bitrate equal to the input one.